Day 163 – Going every which way

The bus ride to Chicago is about 14 hrs so there was one leaving at 1 am that I was getting on in order to be in CHI by tonight’s game. The bus wasn’t full so I managed to have an open seat beside me to start. I slept most of the way to the border (we were crossing at Windsor/Detroit). From there we had a number of short stops in cities throughout Michigan & Indiana.

I arrived in Chicago around 2:30 right on schedule. I was staying west of the city so I had a short walk to the train station to catch one of the commuter trains. I guess I didn’t check the train information close enough b/c I went to union station thinking that all trains stopped there. However, once I asked they said only some of the trains left from there, that there was another station a couple blocks away. So off I went to find this station and I had about a 30 min wait for the next train.

I had about a 10-15 min walk from the train station to the hotel. I only had time to drop off my bags in the room before going to catch a train back into the city. However, it had actually started raining in the afternoon while I was still on the bus and it hadn’t stopped so I wasn’t sure whether there would even be a game. I decided I should at least check to see if the game had been called yet instead of heading all the way there. I checked online and there was nothing indicating it had been cancelled so I headed to the ballpark.

It was about a 5-10 min walk to the subway line and it was still raining so it wasn’t looking good for tonight. I made it down to US Cellular Field only to have somebody tell me the game had been cancelled. So my first visit to US Cellular was a rather quick one.

I jumped back on the subway and went downtown to find a place to eat before heading back to my hotel.